How to create a database-driven multi-level navigation menu using Laravel

Question

I\'m new to Laravel 4 and I\'m totally confused about it\'s models. I\'m trying to create a database-driven navigation menu for my project and all I know is I have to create

Answer 1

So after doing much more searching and reading from different sources this is what I came up with and it's working fine:

/app/models/Navigation.php

hasOne('navigation', 'id', 'parent_id');

    }

    public function children() {

        return $this->hasMany('navigation', 'parent_id', 'id');

    }  

    public static function tree() {

        return static::with(implode('.', array_fill(0, 4, 'children')))->where('parent_id', '=', NULL)->get();

    }

}

/app/controllers/HomeController.php

layout->content = View::make('layouts.home.index')->withItems($items);

    }

}

/app/views/layouts/home/index.blade.php

    @foreach($items as $item)
        
{{ $item->title }}
            @foreach($item['children'] as $child)
            
{{ $child->title }}
            @endforeach
        
    @endforeach